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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Patient Identity & Privacy

Roman

New York, NY
Full Time
Senior
179k-212k
16 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Ro is a direct-to-patient healthcare company with a mission of helping patients achieve their health goals by delivering the easiest, most effective care possible. Ro is the only company to offer nationwide telehealth, labs, and pharmacy services. This is enabled by Ro's vertically integrated platform that helps patients achieve their goals through a convenient, end-to-end healthcare experience spanning from diagnosis, to delivery of medication, to ongoing care. Since 2017, Ro has helped millions of patients, including one in every county in the United States, and in 98% of primary care deserts. Ro has been recognized as a Fortune Best Workplace in New York and Health Care for four consecutive years (2021-2024). In 2023, Ro was also named Best Workplace for Parents for the third year in a row. In 2022, Ro was listed as a CNBC Disruptor 50.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain privacy-first data systems, ensuring compliance with state and federal consumer privacy regulations.
  • Develop and integrate consent and preference management systems, enabling patients to control their data usage across Ro's platform.
  • Design and implement high-throughput, scalable, event-driven architectures for the privacy-compliant collection, processing, and distribution of first-party data.
  • Partner with marketing and growth teams to support digital advertising, CRM, and marketing analytics, while ensuring compliance and data security.
  • Implement privacy-preserving techniques, such as data anonymization, tokenization, and minimization, to reduce risk while maintaining business utility.
  • Work on event tracking and analytics pipelines, ensuring accurate and privacy-compliant data flows to third-party platforms (e.g., Braze, Google, Meta, Segment).
  • Collaborate with security and legal teams to enforce data governance, retention, and compliance policies.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on data privacy, security, or large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience building scalable web applications.
  • Experience with privacy-focused data engineering, including data minimization, anonymization, and access controls.
  • Understanding of first-party data systems, event pipelines, and customer data platforms (CDP).
  • Experience integrating CRM and marketing automation tools (e.g., Braze, Iterable, Twilio, Klaviyo, Customer.io).
  • Familiarity with advertising attribution channels server-side tracking, and adtech integrations.
  • Experience in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, fintech), where compliance and security are key factors.
  • Strong sense of ownership, ability to navigate ambiguity, and drive technical initiatives to completion.

Nice to Have

  • Experience working alongside IAM engineers on broader data security initiatives.
  • Knowledge of healthcare or fintech industry compliance standards.

Qualifications

  • Educational background is not explicitly specified, but extensive experience in software engineering and privacy-focused data systems is required.

Benefits & Perks

  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership
  • Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Flexible PTO
  • Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements
  • Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits
  • Pet insurance
  • Student loan refinancing
  • Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness

Working at Roman

Ro believes that diverse perspectives are its biggest strengths and that embracing them will create real change in healthcare. The company supports flexible work arrangements, including in-person collaboration in the tri-state area and throughout the year for remote employees. Ro is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive environment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, familial status, age, disability, or any other protected classification.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 10, 2025
Salary179k-212k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeRemote
ExperienceSenior

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About Roman

Website

getroman.com

Company Size

51-100 employees

Location

New York, NY

Industry

Software Publishers

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